but seeing as she probably can't change the locks or fiddle with the door at all (probably covered in the tenancy agreement), hilarious Home Alone-style booby traps are the only course of action open to her.

but I think there are minimum statutory terms for a tenancy contract, regardless of whether those terms are physically included in your own personal contract - so the 24hr notice period would still apply.

moved into her first flat with 2 other girls, and their landlord spent 4 months turning up at 8am every day to 'paint' one side of their small flat, would call out to them from the road at 11pm at night while holding a 5ft sickle (he was a gardener at the university), and told them not to flush tampons down the toilet - illustrating this by holding a couple of used ones by the string that he'd fished out of the drain.

They eventually took him to a Landlord/Tenant Tribunal and won a pretty heft payment.

i think he is not legally allowed to come round without let us know 24hrs in advance via his lawyer? something like that. in reality, he calls and we arrange when he'll come over, but it's a pretty rare happening. i'd say this guy is doing something wwrrroonnng.

His old landlord would just 'pop in' at really inconvenient times and strike up conversations about the strangest things. He would go to the kitchen and make himself tea or coffee and then walk around the house and look in peoples rooms, and once he arrived there was no getting rid of him, he would stay sometimes for hours on end.

My friend started a pattern of leaving the house once the landlord would arrive, but a lot of the time he would return home after a few hours to find him still there, snooping around.

He decided to move out though, rather than seek advice about what to do.

His old landlord would just 'pop in' at really inconvenient times and strike up conversations about the strangest things. He would go to the kitchen and make himself tea or coffee and then walk around the house and look in peoples rooms, and once he arrived there was no getting rid of him, he would stay sometimes for hours on end.

My friend started a pattern of leaving the house once the landlord would arrive, but a lot of the time he would return home after a few hours to find him still there, snooping around.

He decided to move out though, rather than seek advice about what to do.

His old landlord would just 'pop in' at really inconvenient times and strike up conversations about the strangest things. He would go to the kitchen and make himself tea or coffee and then walk around the house and look in peoples rooms, and once he arrived there was no getting rid of him, he would stay sometimes for hours on end.

My friend started a pattern of leaving the house once the landlord would arrive, but a lot of the time he would return home after a few hours to find him still there, snooping around.

He decided to move out though, rather than seek advice about what to do.

His old landlord would just 'pop in' at really inconvenient times and strike up conversations about the strangest things. He would go to the kitchen and make himself tea or coffee and then walk around the house and look in peoples rooms, and once he arrived there was no getting rid of him, he would stay sometimes for hours on end.

My friend started a pattern of leaving the house once the landlord would arrive, but a lot of the time he would return home after a few hours to find him still there, snooping around.

He decided to move out though, rather than seek advice about what to do.

well into his 80's and would turn up all the time unannounced culminating with him knocking on my bedroom door at 9am saying he had the gasman with him to check the radiator. I said it wasn't convenient and he started to let himself in to the room with a key he had. I barged the door and told him to fuck off. He did. He then wrote me a letter accusing me of assaulting him ! hah I did feel a bit bad as he was an old man, but letting himself into my room when I was in bed ! cheeky fucker. Probably dead now R.I.P Hoops.